Marsh Hawk Review is an online poetry journal sponsored by the Marsh Hawk Press collective. Marsh Hawk Review will appear twice a year, under the revolving editorship of collective members. Each issue will offer a selection of poems solicited by the editor, in addition to new work posted by poets in the collective.

Sunday, April 18, 2010

Basil King

There is hungerThere is always hungerA mouth a page a canvasA colored eyeA thirsty tongueBring him in bring him inBring in the forgottenThe twin the initiatorThe sky BlueGreen initiatorBring him in bring him inThe car the automobileWith side walls the houseBetween continentsA perplexed roofBring him in bring him inThere is hunger

There is always hungerA mouth a page a canvasA colored eyeA thirsty tongueThe country is in troubleNo one will come forwardNo one will initiateThe New YearBring him in bring him inBring in the forgottenThe twin the initiatorThe sky BlueGreen initiator

I choose to liveAs I have alwaysLivedChoice isMy mentorAnd I chooseTo beA painterAnd a poetI choose to liveAs I have alwaysLivedChoice isMy mentor

From the abstract to the figureFrom the figure to the abstract

It is one thing to surviveIt is another to prevail

So I’m looking for the Green Man inside of me – that indefinable function that forms a process of continuous creation.